GGT Seminar: Obstructing reducible surgeries on knots in S^3 using Knot Floer homology
- Event Type
- Seminar/Symposium
- Sponsor
- Groups, Geometry, and Topology Seminar
- Location
- 347 Altgeld Hall
- Date
- Oct 10, 2024 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Speaker
- Holt Bodish (Illinois)
- Views
- 42
- Originating Calendar
- Groups, Geometry, and Topology Calendar
In this talk we discuss using the mapping cone formula and the d-invariants from Heegaard Floer homology as tools for obstructing reducible surgeries on certain classes of knots. This will be an introduction to these techniques and no prior knowledge of knot Floer homology will be assumed.